Race and the Making of American Political Science by Jessica Blatt HARDBACK

Race and the Making of American Political ScienceAuthor(s): Jessica Blatt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812250046, 978-0812250046\nSynopsis\nRace and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, scholars of politics defined and continually reoriented their field in response to the political imperatives of the racial order at home and abroad as well to as the vagaries of race science.\n The Gilded Age scholars who founded the first university departments and journals located sovereignty and legitimacy in a \""Teutonic germ\"" of liberty planted in the new world by Anglo-Saxon settlers and almost extinguished in the conflict over slavery. Within a generation, \""Teutonism\"" would come to seem like.